Austin Alexis's poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a variety of anthologies, journals, magazines and newspapers including Barrow Street, The Journal, The Writer, The Pedestal Magazine and online at Poetz.com. His theatre, dance and film reviews have been published in the The Arts Cure (formerly New York Dance Fax) and have been translated into Japanese. His plays have been performed in New York City, and one was selected for the Samuel French Short Plays Festival. He is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholarship, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Scholarship, as well as residency fellowships from the Millay Colony for the Arts and Dorset Colony House. He has performed his poetry at The Back Fence, The Glines Theatre, La Mama La Galleria, The New York Public Library, as well as on WBAI and WBAU, among other venues. Austin has taught creative writing at Hunter College’s Continuing Education Program and has taught and tutored at The College of New Rochelle, Empire State College and Long Island University. He has worked on the staff of Queens College Library and the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. Currently, he lives in Manhattan and teaches at New York City College of Technology (CUNY) in Brooklyn